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The Tred Avon River (a corruption of "Third Haven") is a main tributary of the Choptank River in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. With the colonial port of Oxford founded near its mouth between 1666 and 1668, the river served as a major shipping lane in the international tobacco trade until the end of the Revolutionary War, when wheat became the Eastern Shore's main cash crop and Oxford's monopoly on colonial trade ended, which led to an economic downturn.[1] But with the decline in trade came a post-Civil War rise in oyster harvesting, causing a renewed local economic boom lasting until the depletion of oyster beds in the Tred Avon and lower Choptank in the 1920s from overharvesting.[1] Current Maryland governor Martin O'Malley has recently sought to revive the river's oyster beds through citizen participation, initiating in September 2008, the Marylanders Grow Oysters project, which encourages waterfront property owners to grow oysters from their piers using cages; after and 9- to 12-month growing period, the oysters will then be moved to a protected sanctuary in the Tred Avon.[2]